Sep. 23rd, 2008

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There are few fruits I love more than the mango (bite your tongues, my husband does not count)!

When they're in season, breakfast is often a mango cubed with either nonfat cottage cheese or plain nonfat yogurt. Nancy's is a wonderful brand out of Oregon, available at the local Safeway even comes organic.

I just wasn't hungry this morning, so didn't have anything to eat before leaving for work. About half an hour ago, I decided it was time for lunch. I've had three small mangoes sitting in the refrigerator for at least the last three weeks. Amen, they've been kept chilled, so they were nice and ripe, deliciously edible and not rotted. I also have a quart of Nancy's in the back of the top shelf of the refrigerator, tucked behind a jar of zacusca.

At the moment, I'm in post prandial bliss. Unfortunately I'm due at the hospital to see mother and son from yesterday afternoon.
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[Error: unknown template qotd] It should be a right, but sadly in this country it's treated as a privilege.

Look at the numbers. According to the federal government, in 2005 over 47 million people were completely uncovered. No insurance, no Medicare, no Medicaid. Roughly an equal number were covered under Medicaid, which pays so poorly, that most physicians choose not to accept it, so even though those people technically have coverage, their access to care remains limited

In essence, that's almost 95,000,000 people in this country with limited or no access to care, so no matter what I think healthcare should be, no matter what you think healthcare should be, the reality is in this country it's a privilege.

Oh and by the way, 25% of all bankruptcy filings last year were due to healthcare costs that people were unable to pay.

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